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Senior Tech Project Manager - Zalando Fulfillment Solutions (w/m/d)

Employer
Zalando
Location
Berlin
Closing date
29 Oct 2020

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Function
Operations
Level
Senior Manager

Job Details

Zalando Fulfillment Solutions (ZFS) is a business unit in Zalando working on a vision to empower our brand partners to accelerate their eCommerce business in the most sustainable manner by providing them best-in-class fulfillment products & services.

Senior Tech Project Manager is a new role in our team that combines aspects of project management and tech product management. Your core responsibility will be to set up, plan, monitor and control complex technical projects, managing cross-functional, multi-disciplinary teams e.g. Product Managers, Engineers, Legal Specialists, external stakeholders etc. which could spread across business units and functions. You act as the driving force for defining scope, work tasks and deliverables together with both stakeholders and core team members.
WHERE YOUR EXPERTISE IS NEEDED
  • Lead cross-department projects by defining technical scope and milestones, managing dependencies, planning ahead, setting the course with sound engineering/architecture, leadership expertise, and standards
  • Effectively align stakeholders, engineering and cross-functional teams, technical leaders, and senior management with a strong focus on facilitating collaboration, communication, moderation, contingency planning and decision-making
  • Adjust your approach for each individual project. This may require you to play many roles, from in-house consultant to business analyst to product owner
  • Overcome obstacles, identify and remove bottlenecks and push your projects to success with a collaborative and solution oriented mindset. You thrive on the ability to solve technical and business challenges
WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR
  • A proven track record working in a tech environment. You speak the language of business as well as product and engineering and understand the process of moving from the first ideation to eventual go-live and handover
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills and ability to work across multiple teams, align goals and deliverables and drive overall success independent of organizational boundaries
  • Experience in working with senior stakeholders to collect business requirements and turn them into technical designs.
  • A highly motivated team player, and an expert in managing conflicts and priorities with both teams and stakeholders. You take responsibility for your tasks, and work in an independent and structured manner
  • Excellent PowerPoint and/or Google Presentation skills
PERKS AT WORK
  • Culture of trust, empowerment and constructive feedback, open source commitment, meetups, game nights, 70+ internal technical and fun guilds, knowledge sharing through tech talks, internal tech academy and blogs, product demos, parties & events
  • Competitive salary, employee share shop, 40% Zalando shopping discount, discounts from external partners, centrally located offices, public transport discounts, municipality services, great IT equipment, flexible working times, additional holidays and volunteering time off, free beverages and fruits, diverse sports and health offerings
  • Extensive onboarding, mentoring and personal development opportunities and an international team of experts
  • Relocation assistance for internationals, PME family service and parent & child rooms* (*available in select locations)

We celebrate diversity and are committed to building teams that represent a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit and business need.

ABOUT ZALANDO
Zalando is Europe's leading online platform for fashion and lifestyle, connecting customers, brands and partners across 17 markets. We drive digital solutions for fashion, logistics, advertising and research, bringing head-to-toe fashion to more than 32+ million active customers through diverse skill sets, interests and languages our teams choose to use.

Zalando Fulfillment Solutions is one of the key products at Zalando to advance our platform strategy and support our partners in their logistics. We provide a large scale of B2B services to our partners to inspire and empower them on one end and create a happy customer experience on the other end. Resilience, security and maintainability are key factors in our daily work.

We continuously add new areas of competency, with teams now focused on the tech challenges connected to mission-critical topics including designing tools for Zalando internal operations team, inventory management, transportation, fulfillment and stock valuations. Here we develop our monitoring systems, collaborating with other logistics service providers within organization to find innovative ways to create the most relevant dashboards, monitoring and alerting systems.

Please note that all applications must be completed using the online form - we do not accept applications via email.

Company

Zalando is Europe’s leading online platform for fashion and lifestyle. Founded in Berlin in 2008, we bring head-to-toe fashion to 35 million active customers in 17 markets, offering clothing, footwear, accessories and beauty from over 3,000 international brands.

Our platform is a one-stop fashion destination for inspiration, innovation and interaction. As Europe’s most fashionable tech company, we work hard to find digital solutions for every aspect of the fashion journey: for our customers, partners and every valuable player in the Zalando story.

Our goal is to become the starting point for fashion. We focus on the fashion industry and therefore operate in a variety of business areas.

  • Fashion Store
    Zalando online shops are tailored to local customers’ needs in 17 different European markets. The range extends from renowned global brands and fast fashion to local brands and is supplemented by our private labels.
     
  • Offprice
    The Offprice business of Zalando serves the sale of previous season’s assortments. As part of a shopping club, the Zalando Lounge offers registered members exclusive sales campaigns at discounted prices.
     
  • Zalando's Private Labels
    Zalando’s private label assortment includes shoes, clothing and accessories for women, men and children. With a total of six private labels, Zalando creates its own products, covering the entire value chain from design to sales.
     
  • Zalon
    Zalon is our style advice service, via which customers can consult and get inspiration from selected stylists regarding individualized purchases.
     
  • Zalando Marketing Services
    The entirety of Zalando’s expertise and scope is bundled in Zalando Marketing Services, which now offers personalized marketing solutions for our brand partners.
     
  • Zalando Fulfilment Solutions
    Zalando makes its own logistics capabilities available to external partners, so they do not have to be concerned with infrastructure issues but can concentrate fully on their core competence in the fashion business.
     
  • Zalando Partner Services
    Zalando helps other players in the industry to be successful in the digital world. For example, by connecting warehouse stocks with multiple retailers, by digitizing processes involved in fashion wholesale and by integrating offline businesses into our Zalando platform.


With a strong workforce of around 14,000 employees of over 130 different nationalities, Zalando unites diverse people, capabilities and concepts. Consolidating our effort and ideas scales our impact as an innovator in Fashion, Technology, Digital Marketing and Logistics Operations.

Company info
Website
Telephone
+49 (0)30 2759 4693
Location
Zalando SE
Valeska-Gert-Straße 5
Berlin
Germany
10243
Germany

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